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(No Model.) E. H. LOBDBLL,

SACK.

Patented Sept. 10,1895.

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ATTORNEYS.

ANDREW B GIHM.PMUTOMTHQWASHNGTUN. DL.

iiniTn STnTns llnTnr-TT @Trina EBONS Il. LOBDELL, OF MECOSTA, MICHIGAN,ASSGNOR OF ONE-HALF T ANDREV J. AGKER, OF SAii'IE PLACE.

SACKl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,168, datedSeptember 10, 1895. pplicationiilcd January 22, 1895. Serial'No.535,814. (No rundet) ro adapted for carrying grain, with handles at thebottom, corners, and sides, the handles being so placed upon the sack orbag that they will serve to strengthen the same, and whereby when thesack or bag is lifted by means of i the handles the latter Will sustainthe burden of the strain.

Another object of the invention is to solocate the handles or hand-holdsthat they will serve, when at the bottom, to hold the sack zo straightat that point, and will be so located that no matter in what positionthe sack may be it may be expeditiously and conveniently handled, sinceone or more of the handles will be available for use.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying 3o drawings, forming a partof this specification,

the improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a viev7 of the sack taken from thatside at which the handles are placed, the sack being opened out; andFig. 3 is a horizontal section talren'sub` stantially on the line 3 3 ofFig. l1.-

ln carrying out the invention the sack or bag A may be made of anydesired material, and itis provided with a strap 10, or reinforcingstrip, which extends down upon opposite sides from a point at or nearthe top, around the lower corners, and along the bottom at the 5o atintervals in its length is folded upon itself to form series ofloops'll, the said loops contween the corner ones, as is best shown inFig. 6o

l. In fact, these handles or hand-holds may be located at any point inthe length of the strap, and since the strap in which the handles areformed is secured to the sack at its outer face, it serves as areinforcement therefor at the sides and at the bottom, and the saidstrap is preferably made to cover the seam in the sack, if a seamexists, as shown in Fig. 2; but I desire it to be distinctly understoodthat the handles maybe independent and secured to the sack insubstantially the same order as has been described.

The strap lO, where the handles, loops, or hand-holds ll are formed, isfolded longitudi nally and secured at its edges, so as to make thehandle substantially circular in cross-sec tion, thereby enabling thesack to be handled Without injury to the hands.

The handles, when employed as above set forth, Serve to hold the bag outstraight While it is being iilled, and by gripping the handles at thecorners at the bottom or inverting` the sack all of the contents of saidsaclr may be expeditiously and conveniently removed; and it is evidentthat no matter in what position the sack may be placed, one or more ofthe handles or hand-holds will be available, and that when the sack istied at tho top the upper side handles Will be virtually at the topportions of the sack.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. A sack provided With a reinforcing strap secured toopposite sides and extending around thelower edges and across thebottom, the said strap being unattached to the sack at various points inits length and 'rendered Jfull at its unattached points, forming aseries of handles, whereby the strap in addition to forming handles formanipulating the Sack reinforces the same, as set forth,

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2. The combination, with a. sack, of L strap and along the sides of thesack, substantially extending along opposite sides and across the setforth. bottom, the strap being bowed at intervals in its length andsecured to the body of the sack 5 except at its bowed sections, the saidbowed Wnesses:

sections boing located diagonally at tho bot- FRANK W. STEEL, tomcorners, ucar thc conter of the bottom ROBERT D. PARKS.

EMONS H. LOBDELL.

